With the sudden resignation of NAACP president Ben Jealous, the search is on for a new leader. BlackAmericaWeb.com’s Senior Political Correspondent, Michael H. Cottman, recently…
It’s time for a radical change at the top: The next president of the NAACP should be a woman. After 104 years, the nation’s largest…
In a surprise move, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, 40, has announced that he is stepping down from the position in January, 2014, reports USA Today.…
Benjamin Todd Jealous, the youngest president ever elected to lead the NAACP, will resign on Dec. 31 saying he wants to spend more time with…
This comes on the heels of racially motivated crimes occurring in the state Leaders from branches of the Ku Klux Klan and the…
Russell Simmons is the latest victim of social media backlash. A video purported to be Harriet Tubman’s sex tape hit his You Tube channel yesterday…
Roland Martin talks with Sherrilyn Ifill, head of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, about the importance of continuing the fight for the Voting…
US Attorney General Eric Holder faces a tough decision as civil rights group petition the Department of Justice to press federal civil rights charges against…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Special thanks to Crystal Nickens Freeman of Atlanta, Ga., daughter of Barbara Pace Hunt for this submission. Barbara Pace Hunt was the lead…
Roland Martin talks with Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, the President of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP about the weekly civil…
Progressive protests against a wave of conservative legislation in the North Carolina State House show little sign of weakening at the one month milestone. Case…
In true GOP revisionist fashion, right-wing extremist Glenn Beck called the NAACP a “joke” and claims that the organization is an “affront” to civil rights…
